Obscene and Pornographic Art Prices

You'll have to forgive me for a serious post, but I am outraged, outraged I say. My little covers are meant to amuse but I am very sincere in my admiration for the pulp artists. A collection of cast off and abandoned works by Picasso have been discovered and valued in the neighborhood of $80 million. The record for a work of a pulp artist is under $150,000. A world class museum of pulp art could be built and maintained in perpetuity for much less than the price of a single work of Lucien Freud. I admire Picasso and Freud a good deal but too many fine artists labor in obscurity while histrionic speculation in art drives the prices far beyond their actual worth. This sort of star worship is rampant in the performance arts as well as sports and even finance. I have no problem with the talented, hard working or just lucky being rich but one Van Gogh work is not more valuable than the life's' works of hundreds of artists laboring today unappreciated and unrewarded like Van Gogh himself.

What you don't know can hurt you

"Fool's tax":
This isn't a word I love but a phrase and an idea that really has its place today perhaps more than ever.
The price you pay for ignorance, buying oregano or a used car that dies after two blocks. What about straying into the wrong neighborhood?

Boys Just Wanna Have Fun

Words I love,
Apoplexy- literally to have a stroke but it hearkens back to the day when it was believed that a person could become so frustrated that their brain would blow.
Dissolute- debauched, degenerate, depraved, dissipated, lewd, lax, lascivious,wanton,wayward, wicked and wild. The best things in life are synonyms.

Bitch, bitch, bitch

I hate movies that don't know when they're over, most recently Deadgirl, terrific movie if you like sick and wrong. It has tons of loose ends, zombies running around as well as many dead or missing kids from one high school, which is fine and actually would be good sequel bait but instead it opts for a too pat ending with no resolution. Would a zombie have rights? I doubt if you could call them legally dead since they clearly have some limited brain activity. Are they mentally ill rather than murderers? Most zombie movies are end of the world scenarios but what if there were just a few that could be safely restrained?
Just to throw this in "3:10 To Yuma" above average western until the last 10 minutes when it turns into the worst buddy movie ever made.
Today's weird but true.
The perfect crime scene. The US Constitution specifies that a jury must be selected from the state in which the crime was committed as well as the federal district. This has never been a problem because state boundaries almost perfectly line up with districts. An exception is the part of Yellowstone Park in Idaho because the entire park lies in the Wyoming district. This area has no population and hence no one available to serve as a juror.

Crypts and the Bloods

"Those who fail to study history are doomed to repeat it"
My tenth grade teacher and confirmed the next semester by my guidance counselor

Hammer Time

Is that a tarantula in your pocket or are you just overdue for a wax?

If I said you had a beautiful body, would you show me where it's buried?

Heaven must be missing an angel... judging by the pile of bloody feathers

Wanted for Failure to Appear-the Invisible Man

" I didn't mean for it happen, at first he kept me in the dark and it felt like just another fling but later, he took me by surprise and I knew that if I let go, he'd vanish forever."

" Oh, all his women are pumped just full of surprises; did you think you were the only one? He's not a guy who can get by on good looks."

"Of course, but I've never been felt about this way by any other man."